Narrative Essay On Profiling

The process of using behavioral evidence left at a crime scene to make inferences about the offender, including inferences about personality characteristics and psychopathology is called criminal profiling. Around the country, several agencies rely on the minds of criminal psychologists to lead them in the right direction to finding the correct offender. Criminal profiling provides investigators with knowledge of the appearance and behavior of a potential criminal.

Many people make jokes not necessarily trying to offend someone, but sometimes can result in the person being offended because of how they take it. Universally, this is known as "cancel culture" in which “individuals or groups are thrust out of social or professional circles”(Brenner). In Jon Ronson’s, “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life” he records the controversy behind her offensive joke on Twitter that led to her being “canceled”. He also articulates the thinking behind her actions and how it affected her mental health, work, and personal affairs. Although Ronson teaches how being bullied and outcast by the public can affect you, he also shows it through many hasty generalizations and ad populums.

With the society that most individuals are offered today, the world of crime has been constantly transforming. This can influence the typical individual to question if there are too many laws that one should follow, including the penalties that are to be expected. The word crime can insinuate many thoughts of apprehension, segregation, and security when applying the law in accordance to criminal acts being prosecuted. In order for penalties to apply to a particular individual, law enforcement must first be able to track and identify suspects of various crimes. Numerous approaches can be offered for this process, but profiling is a common tactic that has aided law enforcement in seeking justice for both suspects and victims.

Today, individuals are sacrificing privacy in order to feel safe. These sacrifices have made a significant impact on the current meaning of privacy, but may have greater consequences in the future. According to Debbie Kasper in her journal, “The Evolution (Or Devolution) of Privacy,” privacy is a struggling dilemma in America. Kasper asks, “If it is gone, when did it disappear, and why?”(Kasper 69). Our past generation has experienced the baby boom, and the world today is witnessing a technological boom. Technology is growing at an exponential rate, thus making information easier to access and share than ever before. The rapid diminishing of privacy is leaving Americans desperate for change.

Law enforcement agencies and other supporters have argued that profiling is a necessary means in fighting crimes efficiently. The police are able to save time, money, and resources by narrowing down a large amount of suspicious people through profiling. As a result of this, they can then concentrate their attention on the suspects that are likely to commit felonies. Profiling, however, has been shown to lead to the complete opposite of increasing public safety and preventing crimes. Research on traffic stops revealed that Hispanic and black drivers were more than twice as often as white people to be pulled over and searched. Yet, drugs, weapons, and other contraband are more frequently found in the cars of white owners (Natarajan 2).

Did you know that 58% of employers have fired workers for Internet and email misuse? And 48% justify employee video monitoring as an effort to “counter theft and violence?” According to the “2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey” of which 304 U.S. companies participated in, computer-monitoring results have led to the highest cause of employee termination. These companies used several tactics to eavesdrop on employees while claiming to be managing productivity or for security purposes. Some argue that surveillance is absolutely necessary to help protect and grow a business; others argue that employee and customer rights come first. However, companies that use such tactics often violate the privacy of individuals, exploit their private information and even punish those that do not conform to their standards.

Legendary boxer and famous figure for the Muslim community, Muhammad Ali once said: “The word 'Islam ' means 'peace. ' The word 'Muslim ' means 'one who surrenders to God. ' But the press makes us seem like haters.” As Ali points out the United States public today has criminalized the religion of Islam and this has caused discrimination on the structural level. Citizens in the United States expect that they are not subject to marginalization and be treated equally. Instead what Muslim constituents are finding is that they are being treated unfairly by law enforcement. Undermining the laws of the United States sets a dangerous precedent for the future. Thus it is absolutely crucial that the United States federal

Profiling is a tool used that emerges forensics, psychology, and criminology to understand criminals such as rapist and serial killers. This technique has been used for centuries to unveil motives, disorders, and history. Law enforcements work with the information they are given to create profiles of the criminals based on their characteristics and evidence. Law enforcement have tried to track patterns and predict the next criminal act, but with the lack of training that has been done for such rare and horrendous crimes. After many serial killers have taunted the police’s lack of intelligence when it comes to catching them from their heinous crimes, other methods where adopted or discovered to help reduce the number of crimes.

In May of 2013 Edward Snowden leaked NSA documents revealing that the organization had been, warrantlessly spying on U.S. citizens, via the internet. (Britannica) The information leaked showed that the NSA had been tapping phones and monitoring citizen’s text messages, emails and social media. (NPR) Snowden has said that he brought these documents to light, not to discredit the government’s method, but to expose it’s methods. Snowden wanted to allow the people of the United States to decide for themselves. (Britannica)

Government surveillance is Getting watched by the government can be safe and can be quiet helpful in some cases such as, when a crime is committed by a criminal they can use cameras to record what happened and they can use that against the criminal.

Profiling is an act which is almost impossible in hacking. This is because; hackers have different backgrounds and incomes. Moreover, hackers can either be male or female. Profiling could be a hard task but not totally impossible. According to Bednarz (2004), experts belive that by knowing the different skills, methods of operation and personal traits of computer criminals could be of great assistance in pursuing these criminals. In profiling such indivuals, one can consider their level of skill as well as motivations. Some have limited programming skills and mostly rely on pre-written scripts to initiate their attacks. Others are highly-trained professional cyberterrorists and criminals, with the right gear and skills to commit serious crime.

"The United States government should have limited grounds to monitoring the American people. With the continuing technological advances, it is impossible to not have government supervision: It is important to this supervision for the safety of the nation.

I have long been interested in the history and ethical issues surrounding government surveillance. I found that the US Government infringement on the rights of private citizens began as far back as 1928 when the Supreme Court ruled, in Olmstead versus the United States, that evidence from unapproved wiretaps were permissible. That means that they didn’t violate the fourth amendment. The ruling claimed that phone conversations were not physical objects and no physical trespassing had taken place. Soon after, project SHAMROCK was developed. It was a system that collected international telegrams coming through private service providers and was used to crack down on Soviet espionage, without warrants. The program was in service for 30 years. Wiretapping was

The part I found the easiest was taking the time to sit down and write out my thoughts. I enjoyed sitting down and expressing my thoughts on paper the most out of the entire experience. I think a person who may not have someone to talk to will appreciate this practice for producing positive emotions.

After that last week of school, we headed to Hamburg to see a musical, and I loved it. It was rock music along with a Romeo and Juliet storyline, but instead of the conflict being two rival families it was the fact the two main characters lived on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall. Once back in Bremen, we toured the Mercedes Benz factory for a second time and started packing for a Watersports camping trip. Cara is a part of a Watersports team and once a year they all go on a trip to sail, kayak, and canoe. Cara was a camp counselor along with a few of her other friends, so I got to help out some too. I played volleyball one night with the adults and counselors which I hadn’t done since eighth grade, and surprisingly, I wasn’t awful. The younger